1937 - FDR in New Orleans

FDR enjoys a post-luncheon smoke at Antoine's using his well-known cigarette holder. The man in the bow tie behind the President is Roy Alciatore, the proprietor of Antoine's. Photograph by Earl S. Martin. [E. S. Martin Photograph Collection] President Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited the Crescent City on April 29, 1937. He came to dedicate the Roosevelt Mall in City Park near the city's new municipal stadium, then under construction . The mall and the stadium, along with other improvements to the Park, were project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), one of the keystones of FDR's New Deal. The President arrived in New Orleans by train following a journey from Washington through Atlanta and on to the Alabama and Mississippi Gulf Coast.

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What did Mayor Maestri say to FDR at the dinner at Antoines?And, some more trivia--which guy in the picture is Mayor Maestri? Mr. Lake

He said, ' How ya like dem erstas, Mista Prezidunt?'.

An I liked da erstas just fine at Bozo's tonight. I don't know which wunnadem mens is Mayor Maestri unless its the one wit' his head turned around. CopCop